I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Maybe You Should Just Whip the Frosting Instead…

Yesterday was nuts. In fact, the next 24 hours are going to be nuts and there is nothing I can do about it. And that’s okay, because HOLY CANNOLI’S PEOPLE, we are heading down the homestretch. Only 20 more days to go until graduation, and it’s going to be an exhausting sprint to the finish line.

This is my friend Jennifer. {wink* wink} I’ve known her ever since our kids were in junior high and a few weeks ago during one of our volunteering sessions the conversation of cupcakes came up and she basically offered to help me bake and frost 600 cupcakes for a school function.

Obviously I said YES!!!

But after a few cupcakes it was decided that perhaps Jennifer’s true calling was whipping frosting. 😉 Not that I do have OCD or anything, but some of us are just better and different things. Right?

Ahh Jennifer, if you are reading this I LOVE YOU. I think you are amazing person and I’m going to miss you next year when our kids graduate and I won’t get to hang out with you anymore. It’s been so much fun volunteering at the school these past few years with you. You are one fun lady.

Maybe we can take a cake decorating class together next fall or something. 😉

It’s sad isn’t it.

When our kids move on, so do we, and all those long hours spent helping out at our kids school and hanging out with other moms just sorta fades away.

Hold the phone! Just because your daughter is graduating doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to all of your “school friends”! I have many, many life long friends that we still stay on touch with & our relationships continue to grow even after our kids have flown the nest. Just wait- many will circle back around for bridal showers, wedding invites & my favorite (!) baby showers! Life long friends are irreplaceable,

First off you are brave women to take on the task of baking and decorating 600 cupcakes. And secondly I’m kind of suprised you are allowed to do it. Most of the schools down here have banned homemade goodies :(. The kids can’t even have bake sales any more…and that was how my class made money for dances and trips.

I thought the same thing. I love the moms of my children so much, what will I do? You know.. I see them the same amount. We coffee, shop, hit fun local events together. They continue to be part of my life and I still love them sooo much.

I can empathize with your situation, I was there a very short time ago! I cried April-June the year my oldest graduated, then again August and September when she left for college! Before long though, we were each driving to meet half way for dinner Wednesday nights together and soon she was home just about every weekend when she learned having your own apartment can be very lonely when you are from a close family (used to piling together on a too small couch to watch movies)!!

Emotionally, it got easier with each child, but it could be that kids 2 & 3 chose to stay home and do college locally, so my nest is still not completely empty! I love seeing my kids grow into their adult lives, but I am looking forward to when all I have to think about is my hubby and myself. Being just a couple again is a lot of fun, too!